Hmmm, some people collect stamps, others collect coins, some collect stuffed animals, all sorts of things. I want to collect notetakers, but that's an incredibly expensive proposition.
Replying to @coboldragon@leaseysocial.com
@coboldragon Hahaha. Yes a very expensive hobby but oh so fun!
Replying to @baxaphobia@caneandable.social
@baxaphobia Yeah, I started to ponder what the heck I'm doing when I realized I'd added the BrailleNote Evolve event to my calendar, and I was contemplating whether I could justify ordering a BT Braille. I haven't made either of those decisions, but they're wandering around in my brain trying to convince me.
Replying to @coboldragon@leaseysocial.com
@coboldragon Have you heard if the Evolve has improved since its initial release?
Replying to @baxaphobia@caneandable.social
@baxaphobia I know they've had a release 1.1, and I believe that now allows the Evolve to serve as a Braille display for other devices. They also fixed some of the stuff that Jonathan pointed out about Find not working in the Braille application. I don't know if the hardware will be different for the Evolve with a typewriter keyboard; that's one of the things I hope to discover by going to the webinar. If it isn't, I think I'll still pass.
Replying to @coboldragon@leaseysocial.com
@coboldragon I'm still interested to know more.
Replying to @baxaphobia@caneandable.social
@baxaphobia @coboldragon The hardware will not be different. At the NFB Convention, they told me that the battery life would be exactly the same, and the processor would be the same too. Its possible the thermal characteristics might be different, like it might not get hot as quickly, but I'm not sure about that. Speaking of collecting notetakers, I now have the NLS eReader, BT Speak, BT Braille 40, SensePlayer, Orbit Player, Orbit Speak Plus, and Monarch, and I should be getting the BrailleSense 7 very soon, and I will be buying the Orbit Strata 20 Pro when it comes out. So I might have pretty much all the modern ones except for the Evolve and Victor Reader Stream, neither of which I'm really interested in. lol
Replying to @emassey0135@caneandable.social
@emassey0135 If the hardware won't be different, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to go for the Evolve. I'm considering a BT Braille 20. Are you enjoying that device? What do you use that for, and what would you expect to do differently using the BS7? What would your use case be for each? I'm asking because there's a part of me that wants the BT Braille 20 for portability. I do have the NLS EReader, the SensePlayer, the BS7, the Mantis, the BI Braille 40 (I absolutely don't like that one), an old Focus 40 Blue (didn't like that either), and a BrailleNote Touch Plus (which I never liked and is why I jumped to the Braille Sense line).